ADI Foundation touts 2025 as a year “from concept to execution”

• ADI Chain is now operating with partners in more than 20 countries and 50 institutions, alongside national‑scale pilots across sectors such as energy, real estate, and digital identity.
• ADI Foundation outlined an ambition to onboard one billion people into the digital economy by 2030, focusing on countries and populations that lack basic financial infrastructure.
• FutureTech 4.0 Academy aims to train more than 10,000 specialists in web3 regulation, development, operations, and policy to ensure “human infrastructure” keeps pace with digital infrastructure.

ADI Foundation, an Abu Dhabi–based organisation building sovereign‑grade blockchain infrastructure for governments and institutions, returned to Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) to showcase a year of progress since announcing its launch at the same venue last year.

CEO Andrey Lazorenko said the group moved “from concept to execution,” highlighting the rollout of ADI Chain’s Mainnet, built specifically for government and institutional use cases, and new partnerships aimed at integrating with global financial institutions to advance regulated stablecoins and institutional digital finance.

New strategic collaborations

Lazorenko said ADI Chain is now operating with partners in more than 20 countries and 50 institutions, alongside national‑scale pilots across sectors such as energy, real estate, and digital identity.

He framed the approach as “a different idea of blockchain,” emphasising auditability, compliance, and alignment with local policy priorities. New strategic collaborations announced during ADFW are intended to accelerate real‑world applications on ADI Chain in line with Abu Dhabi’s ambition to be a global hub for regulated digital assets.

He pointed to Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) as a foundational pillar for the effort, citing the jurisdiction’s dedicated rules for digital assets, currency‑referenced tokens, and DLT entities, which he said offer regulatory clarity and national‑level confidence for institutions building on blockchain.

ADI Foundation is headquartered at ADGM and positions its work as translating forward‑looking policy into scalable systems, including a Dirham‑backed stablecoin initiative with major UAE institutions to support fast, secure, low‑cost domestic and cross‑border payments while preserving monetary and regulatory sovereignty, according to Lazorenko’s remarks during ADFW.

Looking ahead, ADI Foundation outlined an ambition to onboard one billion people into the digital economy by 2030, focusing on countries and populations that lack basic financial infrastructure. The plan includes talent development: the FutureTech 4.0 Academy aims to train more than 10,000 specialists in web3 regulation, development, operations, and policy to ensure “human infrastructure” keeps pace with digital infrastructure.

Lazorenko also cited ties with Sirius International Holding and IHC, which provide access to dozens of entities that could integrate blockchain into operations, helping de‑risk government adoption, fund pilots, and scale social‑impact initiatives on ADI Chain from hundreds of millions to potentially one billion users.